The Wider The Better

"The latest trend in lamination is the interest and use of thermal lamination for wide-format graphics," he says, explaining that with the introduction of digital ink-jet printers, laminator manufacturers had to come up with a low-melt laminate for use with the ink jets.

Printer And RIP Together

The AgfaJet Sherpa 2 printer, from Agfa, in combination with the Agfa Edition of The Onyx PosterShop RIP 5.0, offers a system solution for piezo poster printing. It features a high-speed poster printer, long-life piezo-electric heads and prints 720x720-dpi, photo-like images in all kinds of applications. It has a flexible media-handling system for rolls or cut sheets, a maximum printing width of 934 mm, and a media width to 954 mm.